Far away from the beach the line had becomethicker, and was no longer in single file, theprogress of the birds being slow and steady, butwhen within half a mile or so from the beach,excitement seemed to take possession of them, andthey would break into a run, hastening over the remainingdistance, the line now being a thin one,with slight curves in it, each bird running, withwide gait, and outstretched flippers working awayin unison with its little legs. In fact, the wholeair of the line at this time was that of a school-treatarrived in sight of its playing-fields, andbreaking into a run in its eagerness to get there.
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It seemed to me then, that all the chivvyingand preliminaries which they went through beforeentering the water, arose mainly from a desire onthe part of each penguin to get one of its neighboursto go in first in order to prove whether the coastwas clear or not, though all this manœuvring wascertainly taken very lightly, and quite in the natureof a game. This indeed was not surprising, for ofall the animals of which I have had any experience,I think the Adélie penguin is the very bravest.The more we saw of them the fonder we becameof them and the more we admired their indomitablecourage. The appearance of a sea-leopard in theirmidst was the one thing that caused them any panic.With dozens of these enemies about they wouldgambol in the sea in the most light-hearted manner, but the appearance of one among them was thesignal for a stampede, but even this was invariablygone through in an orderly manner with some showof reason, for, porpoising off in a clump, they atonce spread themselves out, scattering in a fan-shapedformation as they sped away, instead ofall following the same direction. 2ff7e9595c
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